Rearrange Tabs

OCD is weird.
It makes a person do weird things. For instance, I find it annoying to have tabs not
grouped by their purpose. When I’m working, I usually have the documentation opened in
one tab (which usually is the left tab) and the tab to its right, absolutely, has
to be the tab that’s running my local copy of the app that I’m currently working on.

I’m used to using the mouse to rearrange my tabs all the time. Sometimes, I have
multiple windows open (if I’m at work, since I have a dual-monitor setup) at the
same time. I’ve always wanted to have keyboard shortcuts that did all this. That’s
the reason I wrote a new Google Chrome Extension called
Rearrange Tabs.

Rearrange Tabs

Rearrange Tabs
is a tiny Google Chrome Extension that you can install right now to use keyboard
shortcuts to move your tabs around in your Google Chrome browser.

To move a tab to its left

Windows: Shift+Alt+Left
Mac: Ctrl+Shift+Left

To move a tab to its right

Windows: Shift+Alt+Right
Mac: Ctrl+Shift+Right

Edit: Previously the shortcut to move the tab on Mac was Alt+Shift+<Arrow>. I had to update this since it was overriding the word highlight shortcut and made it hard to edit text inside the browser. That is fixed now.

Edit 2: You can now customize your keyboard shortcuts to move the tabs.